Shadee Elmasry – 2 The Prayer Times
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The speaker discusses the importance of praying at the Select times, in the same language, and gives an example of praying in the bathroom. They also explain that praying at the beginning and end of each time is not mandatory, but rather necessary for prayer. The speaker emphasizes the importance of using the app to start and finish prayer, and mentions that there are over 1 million prayer finders around the world.
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The first precondition of the prayer is the entrance of the
time. So we have to pray on time. Now, you can pray to Allah,
anytime, in any language in any place, except for disrespectful
places like the bathroom, you would and pray in the bathroom,
for example. But there's an obligatory ritual prayer, which
has another function. Okay, number one, it's the most important
prayer. Number two, it actually brings our people together brings
Muslims together, right? Because this Prayer must be done at the
Select times, in the same exact way, in the same language. And the
same form, whether from the time of the Prophet until today,
whether it's China, Brazil, America,
wherever we are 2020 1820 1920 1720 Doesn't
matter. This prayer is done in the same exact way. There's also a
great wisdom regarding the prayer time itself, which is that if
someone says to you pray right now, your sincerity is not there,
it's not coming from you. But at the same time, if you're given an
action, and no deadline, no structure, most of us won't do it
at all. So Allah to Allah has combined the two by giving us a
window, but also limits, right. So within this window of time, you're
gonna pray from your own self. So it brings out the sincerity of a
person. But it also gives us some discipline, in that it gives us a
beginning time and an end time. You cannot pray before the
beginning. All right, and you cannot pray. After it's over?
Well, you can make it up. But you shouldn't delay it past your
sinful if you delay it purposely past regarding the prayer times.
The prayer times are based on the movement of the Sun, which a brand
new Muslim does not need to know that on the spot. What you need to
know, in fact, is merely that you can get an app, you get there are
a million of these Islamic prayer finder, whatever. And the app will
basically tell you the beginning and end of each of the five prayer
times and you'll notice a quarter of the day or half the daylight
hours, there is no prayer. So the first half of the daylight,
there's no prayer. So there's five prayers in the remaining 75% of
the 24 hour cycle. There will be five prayers and for about a
quarter of that from the sunrise all the way until the middle of
the day. There's no obligatory prayer. So it suffices a person
just get the app, get the calendar, and that's a good way to
start.